| Release notes for MacPython 1.5.1 |
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| Open Issues and bugs: |
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| - Packages ("dotted import") appears to have problems for the cfm68k |
| version of MacPython. Please report anything of interest you find as |
| soon as possible, preferrably to pythonmac-sig@python.org. I no longer |
| have access to a reasonable 68K machine, so it may well be that this |
| means the demise of cfm68k Python is near. |
| - Printing a NumPy "array([1.2])" may cause a crash in |
| cfm68k-Python. Same comments as above. |
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| Changes since the previous version: |
| |
| Here are the mac-specific changes since MacPython 1.4, with |
| end-user-visible changes near the top and API changes and other things |
| that are developer-only more to the bottom. Changes marked with a [*] |
| are new changes since 1.5b3 (there has never been a MacPython 1.5 |
| final). And, of course, all Guido's 1.5.1 changes are |
| incorporated. |
| |
| - Imported modules are now case-checked: the case of the filename |
| should match the name under which you import it [*] |
| - There is now some minimal documentation on building true standalone |
| applications in Python, see building.html [*] |
| - Python's private resources now use numbers from 228 up, because of |
| conflicts with Tk. This may affect you if you include private |
| resources in applets. [*] |
| - Audio_mac spike bug fixed. [*] |
| - FrameWork menu cleanup fixed. [*] |
| - More MacOS errors now have a (somewhat) symbolic description. [*] |
| - mactty module added to allow basic access to a serial line. [*] |
| - toolbox modules have been regenerated, occasionally giving access to |
| new functionality. They are now based upon Universal Headers version |
| 3.1 [*] |
| - Waste module now uses Waste 1.3 [*] |
| - Waste module now exports WE{Get,Set}TabSize [*] |
| - Ordinal support in aetypes added (by Bill Bedford) [*] |
| - ColorPicker module added (by Just van Rossum). It isn't documented, |
| but the docstring should be good enough. [*] |
| - Printing module added (by Just van Rossum). It isn't documented and |
| it isn't easy to understand, but with Inside Mac beside you it might |
| be useable. There's a test script in Mac:Lib:test. [*] |
| - Sndihooks module added to give access to sound-input. Only lightly |
| tested and not documented yet. [*] |
| - fstat() added to mac module. [*] |
| - double dispose in MacOS.splash() fixed. [*] |
| - Qt module now supports getting/setting movie times [*] |
| - BuildApplet now also accepts old applets as input, which are updated |
| to the current Python version [*] |
| - Moved Mac:Lib:toolbox and scripting to lib-toolbox and |
| lib-scripting, analogous to Guido's changes. Initial sys.path settings |
| reflect this change |
| - Added cPickle and cStringIO modules |
| - Balloon help in set-preferences dialog and EditPythonPrefs |
| - An interface to the Help Maganer has been added |
| - New modules "preferences" and "pythonprefs" which allow access to |
| Python preferences and implements a general preference-handling |
| framework. New EditPythonPrefs uses this. |
| - Applescript suite modules are now in a separate Mac:Lib:scripting |
| folder |
| - Most modules now export their type objects |
| - MacOS.SysBeep() and MacOS.GetTicks() added |
| - sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix are now set correctly |
| - Installation is now through an installer |
| - mkapplet and MkPluginAliases have been renamed to BuildApplet and |
| ConfigurePython |
| - Applescript classes and properties are now exported by suites. Very |
| sketchy documentation added to applescript.html |
| - Tkinter now uses tcl/tk 8.0 |
| - imports should be faster due to caching path information |
| - Generated suites now live in Mac:Lib:scripting |
| - Added zlib module |
| - Tkinter setfilehandler() did not work for sockets, fixed |
| - "Delay console window" option didn't work, fixed. Also check out the |
| quietconsole.py module |
| - Menu bar is restored (if needed) when keeping console open after |
| exit |
| - Influencing command-. and event processing (formerly MacOS.SetYield |
| and MacOS.SetScheduleTimes) has been changed, see the manual |
| - FrameWork (or your own windowing code) can use asynchronous |
| callbacks to keep user interface responsive during long computations |
| - Module to interface to Internet Config added |
| - Module calldll added that allows calling of arbitrary C routines |
| from MacOS toolboxes |
| - gdbm module added |
| - ctb error handling fixed, and some memory leaks plugged |
| - Various of the documentation files in Mac:Demo have been updated |
| - MacOS.string_id_to_buffer is a new hack: the number you have to |
| add to the id() of a string object to get the (data) memory address |
| - MacOS.splash() double-free fixed |
| - macfs.FSSpec.as_pathname() was incorrect for disk toplevel folders |
| - QT.NewMovieFromFile has an extra parameter and an extra return value |
| - EasyDialogs.ProgressBar has changed both in layout and interface |
| - FrameWork.Application has a new cleanup() method which asks all windows |
| to close themselves. |
| - Loading of PYC resources from the application greatly speeded up, |
| especially for CDROM based applications |
| - interrupt check/eventloop only entered 10 times per second, giving |
| big speedup |
| - Allow any object (file, folder, disk) to be dropped on an applet |
| - Twit resource number conflict with debuggee fixed |
| - sys.path preference can now be longer than 255 chars |
| - cfmfile module allows parsing and merging of CFRG resources |
| - PythonFAT and PythonApplet are now fat (PPC/CFM68K) applications, so |
| applets can be moved between architectures. |
| - Twit resource number conflict with debuggee fixed |
| - mkapplet now uses a progress bar in stead of print statements |
| - unshar made a bit more mac-friendly (input output dialogs) |
| - img: added png, xbm, bmp support |
| - img: jpeg now uses IJG v6 library |
| - img: import of imagefile support modules delayed until needed |
| - img: better error handling for truncated images and such |
| - img: imgop.unpack() can unpack formats with multiple pixels per byte |
| |
| - build numbers work and are maintained in macbuildno.h by fullbuild.py |
| - We now use CW Pro 1, with multitarget projects and such goodies |
| - fixed xx plugin project for cfm68k |
| - All files updated to new Py_ naming convention |
| - Toolbox modules regenerated from new Universal Headers |
| - nfullpath() merged into PyMac_GetFullPath() |
| - Added support for Metrowerks profiler |
| - Standard MW/MSL runtime libraries used in stead of homegrown version |
| - Allow any object (file, folder, disk) to be dropped on an applet |
| - Malloc now returns cache-line-aligned memory on PPC, which speeds |
| things up, especially on a 604. Dictionaries put this to good use. |
| - statically linked pythons won't inadvertantly load .slb modules |
| - Removed dependencies on PLStringFuncs and/or StdCLib |
| - Project "segment" structure changed to more-or-less follow folder |
| structure |
| - fullbuild redesigned |
| - Added PyMac_Initialize() call, for use by embedding programs. |